Danger in the Skies!

Well, we decided to take our movie adventure "above ground" this week.

Movie #1:  Airport (1970, George Seaton, with Barbara Hale, Dean Martin, Burt Lancaster)

Kathy informed us that this is the "disaster movie that started it all".  Jason and I noted that it was an hour and a half of backstory for a 10 minute "disaster".  And in the end all that backstory really didn't have anything to do with the disaster!  Lots of famous celebrities who needed a little money for the bank. 

What we loved:  Mrs. Quonsett, the little old lady "stowaway", George Kennedy's cigar chomping

Ratings:  Kathy:  3, Jason 2.5, Me...an "Eh!"



Movie #2:  Air Collision (2012, The Asylum, with Reginald VelJohnson, Jordan Ladd)
       What would happen...if air traffic control was done solely by computers, those computers went rogue, and Air Force One was on a collision course with a passenger jet.....
Now we're talking!
Now THIS is a disaster movie!  Produced by our favorite cheesy movie company, The Asylum, it is completely over the top!  First, your 90s has-been of the week--Da dada da!!!!!!!!!  Reginald VelJohnson--the father on Family Matters.  Whereas our first movie was nothing but backstory, this one was nothing but effects and melodramatic acting.  Kathy and Jason were continually bemused by the "plot".  I don't know why or how I was able to piece it together....mysteries will abound I suppose...  

Things we were confused by:  why the computers went rogue in the first place; why on the passenger jet the Asian pilot had an African-American name and why the African-American pilot had an Asian name; why did Air Force One have an "upstairs"  (does the real Air Force One really have an "upstairs", and if so... are my taxdollars paying for that.... I could use that money to get decent brakes on my car....but I digress...)

Big explosions! Lots of death (in various manners, including foaming at the mouth)! Panic! Hysteria! And at the end.... the black pilot with an Asian name finally asks the stewardess out on a date.  (Awwww.)

Ratings:  Kathy:  4 for disaster, 1 for lack of comprehension;  Jason:  3.5;  Me: A Solid 3
Favorite Lines:  Jason (at end of movie):  "I need a cigarette!"
Word of the Night:  "causterflobia" ==the fear of confined spaces so intense that the traditional diagnosis of "clausterphobia" cannot apply    (Poor Jason!  It was the wine talking.)

ATTENTION:  Ratings Retraction.   Kathy would like it to be known that after further consideration of Dark Shadows, she has come to the conclusion that she didn't like it.  She retracts her previous rating and now enters a rating of 1.5 stars.   (I'm sorry Johnny...I'm sorry....)